Qumran—The Pottery Factory
Dead Sea Scrolls Not Related to Settlement, Says Excavator
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Footnotes
The report is co-authored by Magen’s long-time colleague, archaeologist Yuval Peleg, and appears in Katharina Galor, Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Jurgen Zangenberg, eds., The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 55–113.
See Hershel Shanks, “Who Lies Here?” BAR 25:05.
See Boaz Zissu, “Odd Tomb Out: Has Jerusalem’s Essene Cemetery Been Found?” BAR 25:02.
See Oren Gutfeld, “Hyrcania’s Mysterious Tunnels,” in this issue.
Endnotes
Interestingly enough, Magen Broshi, who has also excavated at Qumran and who supports the Essene theory, tells us that “the site lacks…good clay.” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, s.v. “Qumran.”
By contrast, Magen Broshi argues that 10 of the 16 water installations at the site are mikva’ot. “These ritual baths,” he says, “are perhaps the most important elements identifying the compound as a religious institution.” Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, s.v. “Qumran.” Yet he concedes that six of the water installations, among them the largest, are not ritual immersion pools.
In “The Early History of the Qumran Community,” in David Noel Freedman and Jonas C. Greenfield, eds., New Directions in Biblical Archaeology (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), p. 77.